Re: [Sheflug] Security modelling - not quite Linux

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David

> I'm facing redundancy on the grounds that my current role is to be
> subsumed into a new role which is 'significantly different' to my
> current one. 

I'm sorry to hear about this.  I've been through this a few times 
myself.  Not very pleasant.  Hope you can find a way out of it.

> At the moment I develop and maintain external websites
> and content management systems on LAMP for a school and they want
> someone to do this plus internal web sites (on .NET). From fairly
> harmless data protection (sports results, news item etc) it'd now
> include online access for parents to school reports, billing and
> the like, and the grounds on which they say the new role is
> significantly different is that the security modelling is
> significantly different. Clearly the data is more sensitive, but
> does anyone have any advice about how much more complex the
> security considerations are? Is it something that you can do a
> course on and get up to speed, read a book and practice about, or
> does it sound like they have a valid point?

I can't give you some helpful and comprehensive help on a list like 
this one about of the sort that you need.  As a quick mention I'd be 
interested in taking on the steep learning curve that is all about 
Drupal.  It should take care of just about anything that you might 
need.  Other PHP web apps are easier to use but might not have the 
range of control over the end user and who gets what.  If you want to 
learn about Drupal or other software of that sort you can get hold of 
the Drupal 7 book and set it up on  your own box at home.

There's always chgroup, chown, chmod and related command line stuff :)

http://www.freeos.com/articles/4440/

But, you already know about that.  Just putting it here for other 
people.

-- 
Richard
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